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>> i don't know that they weren't testing us with the first balloon incident. we don't know where this one came from. probably china, possibly russia. you can almost guarantee it was launched by someone who does not wish us well. >> president biden's hosting governor some across the nation here at the white house this evening but he should speak later we will see if he has any reaction to the latest shirt shootdown the third shootdown of an object in last week to over the united states in a one over canada. >> they're calling it an object, lucas for the first one everybody called it a balloon....

The passengers had packed their suitcases in preparation for dream holidays, family reunions, trips of a lifetime. 15 crew members were there to greet them and see them to safety. in a flash, all plans for the future were obliterated. flight mhi7 never reached its destination. the plane was cruising at 33,000 feet over eastern ukraine. it was the early days of russia's efforts to control parts of the country. at the time, this was a relatively low—key conflict zone. but the fighting had recently been expanded into the air. in the preceding months, a number of military planes had been shot do...

These weapons. the stinger is for aircraft at lower altitudes, these are what you're seeing shot down. >> americans see there's a building that's clearly marked children, a theater but marked children. and it is basically annihilated. and we don't even know what's happened below. the entire substructure didn't collapse, but we don't know how many kids, mothers might have died in this. would any of this stuff have been able to sop that? >> no. that's the next phase. this is the mig situation, essentially what poland was willing to give to ukraine. there are a few wrinkles to all of this that do...

Flown that route. what you have here is a situation, carol, where some are wanting to blame the car for being on the road, when the road was open, and that seems to me to be slightly back to front. large parts of southern ukraine and crimea are closed, and are highly restricted at lower altitudes, but this plane was actually at a safer area. it was further north where there had been no restrictions of those sorts of levels and so i believe other planes were on those flight paths, and the real issue is why ikeo or the authorities didn't close it. >> you know, it just makes you worry, we live in...

Officials say that he hitched a ride five 1/2 hours on a flight from san jose, california, to hawaii, hiding in the plane's wheel well. william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. so, william, it's very, very cold at 38,000 feet, not to mention how he was breathing up there. >> reporter: 50 degrees below zero. think of mt. everest, heavy coats, oxygen tanks that is 30,000 feet. you're right, in addition to hypothermia and frostbite he should have died of asphyxiation. of 150 stowaway attempts, more than 80% die. those that make it, on shorter flights, lower altitudes. officials say this 16-yea...